Todays permitted exercise!

[Mike T]

11.84 miles, 2,801 feet, 3 hours 33 minutes: Rothay Bridge - Borrans Park - Old Lake Road - Blue Hill Road/Lane - up the race route steps - Wansfell Pike - Nanny Lane - base of Troutbeck Tongue via Town Head and Ing Lane - back up to the Pike via Nanny Lane - race descent - Ambleside. Mainly overcast with high fluffy clouds; some brief episodes of sunshine/blue sky. A few minutes of inconsequential drizzle. A moderate breeze from the south. Terrain anything from dry to wet/saturated/streaming/slippery. Apart from on top of the Pike there were very few walkers about. 1 runner seen.

[Mike T]

10.35 miles, 2,851 feet, 3 hours 19 minutes: Loughrigg trails, including 2 visits to the top, going down to Grasmere shore via the race route and Deerbolts Woods in-between these visits. Sunshine, blue sky, high fluffy clouds, hazy in the distance. No rain. A moderate breeze from the north. Terrain very variable - still saturated/slippery in many places. Lots of walkers on the fell; 3 runners seen.

[mr brightside]

Mike, looks like you will be "last man standing" on here 😥

I'm going down with the ship.

[mr brightside]

10.35 miles, 2,851 feet, 3 hours 19 minutes: Loughrigg trails, including 2 visits to the top, going down to Grasmere shore via the race route and Deerbolts Woods in-between these visits. Sunshine, blue sky, high fluffy clouds, hazy in the distance. No rain. A moderate breeze from the north. Terrain very variable - still saturated/slippery in many places. Lots of walkers on the fell; 3 runners seen.

How do you decide where to go Mike? Do you plan in advance or just set off?

[brett]

Me too!

I'm going down with the ship.

[Llani Boy]

Hope you both find an air pocket that has a Discord connection!

[Mike T]

How do you decide where to go Mike? Do you plan in advance or just set off?

Usually a general idea of which way I will go has come to me before I set out, but I often change my mind as I go along. I try to do 10 miles and at least 2,500 feet of up, and often need to add in a somewhat unnatural loop or two to achieve this.

[Mike T]

10.09 miles, 2,894 feet, 3 hours 14 minutes: Red Screes, ascending via Rydal Park, Low Sweden Bridge, the rock step, High Sweden Bridge and Scandale, and descending via the south ridge and the Golden Rule Pub. Sunshine, blue sky and thin high streaky clouds. No rain. A moderate breeze from the south east. Terrain variable - dry in places, wet/saturated/slippery elsewhere. Given how nice a day it is, I was surprised how few walkers were on the fells. 5 runners seen.

[Mike T]

10.01 miles, 2,931 feet, 3 hours 4 minutes: Wansfell Pike from 2 sides, including up via Blue Hill Road/Lane and the race route steps, down to the upper part of Nanny Lane, up to the true top, back to the Pike along the ridge, and down the race route. Overcast, with the cloud base at about 2,500 feet. No rain. A moderate breeze from the north east. Terrain mainly dry with good grip. Quite a few walker about, mainly lower down; 6 runners seen.

[Graham Breeze]

Well I was pootling along through Bolton Abbey on a 40 mile ride to Kettlewell when a tall, slim blonde vision appeared powering towards me in a Mapei top, hair blowing in the breeze.

It could have been coming from Appleltreewick and it wasn't wearing a helmet so who could that be?

For sure!